Get to know birds of prey on a whole new level. This episode answers listener questions about things like bird parenting, food and morphs.

Stephen Debus has been interested in birds, and especially raptors, since childhood. He’s had a long association with the University of New England (Armidale, NSW) as a research fellow and honorary research associate on various woodland birds. Stephen is also an ecological consultant, doing fauna surveys and assessments for government and industry. Since 2017 he has been working for NSW Local Land Services, surveying and monitoring the nests of threatened raptors on the NSW Northern Tablelands. Stephen has written numerous field guides on raptors and monographs on the eagles and falcons.

Links:

* Sign Birdlife’s SGARs poison petition - actforbirds.org/ratpoison

* Raptors of Northern NSW on Facebook - www.facebook.com/groups/653339721737939/

* BirdLife Australia Raptor Group - ausraptorgroup.org

* Birds of prey recordings were recorded by Marc Anderson and licensed from www.wildambience.com

Stephen’s books:

* Birds of Prey Australia - publish.csiro.au/book/7863

* Australian Birds of Prey in Flight - publish.csiro.au/book/7792

* Australian Falcons - publish.csiro.au/book/8058

* Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds - publish.csiro.au/book/7664

Weekend Birder online:

* Website - weekendbirder.com

* Instagram - @weekend.birder

* Facebook - @weekend.birder

* YouTube - @WeekendBirder

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.